Boulevard de Sébastopol

The Boulevard de Sebastopol is a Parisian boulevard, the second separates the first from the 4th arrondissement, in the course of the 3rd arrondissement.

It is 1332 meters long and 30 meters wide, begins at the Place du Châtelet, ends on boulevard Saint- Denis and goes into the Boulevard de Strasbourg. The Boulevard de Sebastopol is a one-way street leading out of the city with a bus lane and three lanes for other traffic. It crosses in particular:

• Rue de Rivoli - at this intersection in 1922 established the first three-color traffic light in Paris
• Rue Etienne Marcel / Rue aux Ours
• Rue de Turbigo
• Rue Reaumur

Although located on the Boulevard de Sebastopol, some restaurants and many boutiques are located, it is not really a shopping area, in contrast to the Marais and Quartier des Halles, which he separates them.

History

The Boulevard de Sebastopol is one of the most important breakthroughs that made Baron Haussmann perform for his urban planning work. He is one of the most important elements of the large north -south axis, which cross the center of Paris, and thus replaces mainly the Rue Saint- Denis a few meters to the west and the Rue Saint -Martin a few meters further east.

Completed in 1854, he was initially Boulevard du Centre. A few days after the victory of the forces of Napoleon III. on September 8, 1855 in the port of Sevastopol during the Crimean War it was renamed.

For a while, the Boulevard de Sebastopol on the Ile de la Cité away on the Rive Gauche and ended at Rue de Cujas. The section on the left bank of the Seine was renamed in 1867 in Boulevard Saint -Michel.

Weblink

• ( Broken link) Nomenclature of voies officielle de Paris
• Detail from a map of Paris ( Viamichelin )

• Street in the 1st arrondissement (Paris)
• Street in the 2nd arrondissement (Paris)
• Street in the 3rd arrondissement (Paris)
• Street in the 4th Arrondissement (Paris)